Jacques Kelly: How Maryland Sen. Daniel Brewster once saved Assateague Island

On Tuesday, January 7, 2025, the Baltimore Sun published an article by reporter Jacques Kelly recounting the effort undertaken by U.S. Senator Daniel Brewster to preserve Assateague Island as a National Seashore, ensuring that it would remain undeveloped and pristine as most coastal property in the United States was privately owned and slated for development.

Kelly cites the chapters about Assateague in John W. Frece’s biography Self-Destruction: The rise, fall, and redemption of U.S. Senator Daniel B. Brewster and also talks about Senator Brewster’s courageous stand for civil rights in the tumultuous 1960s and the arc of Senator Brewster’s life, from fighting on Okinawa during World War II, to his political rise and stardom, to his legal troubles and eventual redemption

You can read Jacques Kelly’s excellent article on the Baltimore Sun’s website: How Maryland Sen. Daniel Brewster once saved Assateague Island